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Alfredo Weitzenfeld CV P.1 Prof. Alfredo Weitzenfeld CV p.1 Alfredo Weitzenfeld Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering College of Engineering University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave., ENB314 Tampa, FL 33620-5399 Email: [email protected] Web: http://weitzenfeld.robolat.org Advisor: USF Robobulls http://www.usfrobobulls.org Executive Advisory Board: Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems http://www.springer.com/engineering/robotics/journal/10846 Executive Advisory Board: Latin American Robotics Council http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/9/robotica/ Internal Advisory Council: RoboCup Federation http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Organization_of_RoboCup#Internal_Advisory_Board Internal Advisory Board: Mexican Robotics Federation www.femexrobotica.org Research Interests Biologically-inspired Robotics, Cognitive Robotics, Humanoid Robots, Multi-Robot Systems, Human-Robot Interaction, and Neural Networks. Education PhD 1992, Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Thesis: A Unified Computational Model for Schemas and Neural Networks in Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming, Advisor: Michael Arbib. MS 1985, Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. BS 1982, Electrical Engineering, TECHNION, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Faculty Professor 2014-present, Computer Science and Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. Professor 2009-2014, Division of Information Technology, College of Engineering, University of South Florida, Lakeland, FL. Prof. Alfredo Weitzenfeld CV p.2 Visiting Summer 2010, Engineering, Polytech Marseille, France. Professor Visiting 2006-2008, Computer Science and Engineering Department, College of Professor Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. Visiting Summer 2005, Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Professor Santa Cruz, CA. Visiting Summer 2004, Information and Computer Science Department, University of Professor California, Irvine, CA. Visiting Summer 2003, Information and Computer Science Department, University of Professor California, Irvine, CA. Professor 1994 – 2009, Computer Engineering Dept, ITAM, Mexico City. Research 1993, Computer Science Department, USC, Los Angeles, CA. Assistant Professor Laboratories Director 2012 – present, BioRobotics Laboratory, Computer Science and Engineering Dept, College of Engineering, USF, Tampa, FL. Director 2008 – 2013, Robotics Laboratory, Division of Information Technology, USF, Lakeland, FL. Director 2002 – 2009, Robotics Laboratory, Computer Engineering Dept, School of Engineering, ITAM, Mexico, DF. Director 1995 – 2009, CANNES Biorobotics Laboratory, Computer Engineering Dept, School of Engineering, ITAM, Mexico, DF. Manager 1987 - 1993, Brain Simulation Laboratory, Computer Science Dept, USC, Los Angeles, CA. Projects RoboCup 2006 – present, RoboBulls, RoboCup Small-Size Team, College of SSL RB Engineering, USF, Tampa, FL, USA. (http://www.usfrobobulls.org) RoboCup 2006 – 2011, Radical Dudes, RoboCup @Home Team, Information @Home Technology at USF, Lakeland and Tampa, FL, USA and INSERM, Lyon, France. RoboCup 2002 – 2009, Eagle Knights, RoboCup Small-Size and Four-Legged Soccer SSL EK Teams, Robotics Laboratory, Computer Engineering, ITAM, Mexico, DF. NSL 1989 – present, NSL – Neural Simulation Language. (http://www.neuralsimulationlanguage.org). Prof. Alfredo Weitzenfeld CV p.3 Scholarships and Fellowships Fellowship 2010, Visiting Faculty, Polytech Marseille, France Fellowship 2003, UC MEXUS-CONACYT Faculty Visit Grant: “Distributed Embedded Robotics, Supporting Middleware Architectures and Applications” (Visiting Nalini Venkatasubramanian at UCI) Fellowship 1995 – 2008, Member of the Mexican Researchers System (SNI), Mexico, City. Scholarship Summer 1987, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, CA. Scholarship 1985 – 1986, Teaching Assistant, Mathematics Dept, USC, Los Angeles, CA. Research Grants NSF 2015, PI, REU, “A replay-driven model of spatial sequence learning in the Hippocampus-PFC network using reservoir computing”, CRCNS #1503569, NSF (USF: Alfredo Weitzenfeld) NSF-ANR 2014-2017, PI, “A replay-driven model of spatial sequence learning in the Hippocampus-PFC network using reservoir computing”, CRCNS #1429937, NSF-ANR (USF: Alfredo Weitzenfeld; U. Arizona: Jean-Marc Fellous; INSERM, Lyon, France: Peter Dominey) NSF 2013-2014, PI, REU, “Investigations of the Role of Dorsal versus Ventral Place and Grid Cells during Multi-Scale Spatial Navigation in Rats and Robots”, Robust Intelligence, IIS #1339019, NSF (USF: Alfredo Weitzenfeld) NSF 2012-2013, PI, REU, “Investigations of the Role of Dorsal versus Ventral Place and Grid Cells during Multi-Scale Spatial Navigation in Rats and Robots”, Robust Intelligence, IIS #1236975, NSF (USF: Alfredo Weitzenfeld) NSF 2011-2015, PI, “Investigations of the Role of Dorsal versus Ventral Place and Grid Cells during Multi-Scale Spatial Navigation in Rats and Robots”, Robust Intelligence, IIS #1117303, NSF (USF: Alfredo Weitzenfeld; U. Arizona: Jean-Marc Fellous) NSF 2013-2015, PI, “Scaling the STARS Alliance: A National Community for Broadening”, NSF, UNCC (PI: Alfredo Weitzenfeld) USF 2010-2013, co-PI, “Sensor-Based Bladder Monitoring for Injury Detection during Pelvic Surgery”, USF Office of Technology Licensing Commercialization Fund (USF: Stuart Hart MD, Jay DiLeo MD, Susana Lai- Yuen PhD, Alfredo Weitzenfeld PhD) USF 2010 – 2013, co-PI, “Sensor-Based Bladder Monitoring for Injury Detection during Pelvic Surgery”, USF Interdisciplinary Grant (USF: Stuart Hart MD, Jay DiLeo MD, Susana Lai-Yuen PhD, Alfredo Weitzenfeld PhD) LAFMI- 2005-2007, co-PI, French-Mexican Informatics Laboratory Research CONACYT Collaboration Grant: “A Natural Language Interface for Robot Command and Prof. Alfredo Weitzenfeld CV p.4 Control” (ISC-CNRS: Peter Dominey, ITAM: Alfredo Weitzenfeld) UC MEXUS- 2004-2007, co-PI, Research Collaboration Grant: “Networked SEREBROs: CONACYT Ad-Hoc Networking for Collaborative Search and Rescue Biomimetic Robots” (UCSC: Katia Obraczka, ITAM: Alfredo Weitzenfeld) NSF- 2004-2007, co-PI, Research Collaboration Grant: “Visually-guided CONACYT NeuroEthological Autonomous Robots: An Adaptive Middleware Approach to Distributed Embedded Mobile Systems” (UCI: Nalini Venkatasubramanian, ITAM: Alfredo Weitzenfeld) UC MEXUS- 2002-2003, co-PI, Research Collaboration Grant: “MIRO: Adaptive CONACYT Middleware for Mobile Internet Robots” (UCI: Nalini Venkatasubramanian, ITAM: Alfredo Weitzenfeld) CONACYT- 1998-2001, PI, Research Grant: “Brain Models on the Web” (ITAM: Alfredo REDII Weitzenfeld) NSF- 1996-1999, co-PI, Research Collaboration Grant: “Multi-Level Simulation CONACYT Methodology: A Computational and Experimental Approach to Neural Systems” (USC: Michael Arbib; CINVESTAV: Pablo Rudomin; ITAM: Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Francisco Cervantes) NSF- 1995-1998, co-PI, Research Collaboration Grant: “Ecological Robots: A CONACYT Schema-based Approach” (GeorgiaTech: Ronald Arkin; ITAM: Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Francisco Cervantes) Academic Grants LeapDoctor 2015-2016, PI, USF BEST Project Graduate Teaching USF Intelligent Agents, Robotic Applications USC Advanced Computer Graphics ITAM Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Programming, Autonomous Agents Undergraduate Teaching USF Human-Computer Interface, Introduction to Mobile Robots, Advanced Mobile Robots, Software Engineering ITAM Robotics, Object-Oriented Software Development, Computer Graphics, Operating Systems Patents 1. Onal, S., Lai-Yuen, S., Bao, P., Weitzenfeld, A., and Hart, S., Image-based Automated Measurement Model to Predict Pelvic Organ Prolapse, US Patent (submitted 2015). Prof. Alfredo Weitzenfeld CV p.5 2. Hart, S., DiLeo, G., Weitzenfeld, A., Lai-Yuen, S., Hipol, P., and Sweeney, M., Electronic Catheter Stethoscope, US Patent, #20130018267 (submitted 2011). Books 1. Weitzenfeld, A., 2004, Object Oriented Software Engineering with UML, Java and Internet, Thomson Learning / Cengage Learning (in Spanish) (ISBN 970-686-190-4). 2. Weitzenfeld, A., Arbib, M.A., Alexander, A., 2002, The Neural Simulation Language: A System for Brain Modeling, MIT Press (ISBN 0-262-73149-5). Conference Editions 1. Weitzenfeld, A., Ruiz del Solar (Editors) 2014, Proc 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics ICAR 2013, IEEE Xplore (ISBN-978-1-4799-2722-7). 2. Luca, I, A., Matsubara, H., Weitzenfeld, A., Zhou, C., (Editors) 2009, Proc RoboCup 2008: Robot WorldCup XII, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer. 3. Weitzenfeld, A., Ruiz del Solar, J., Zegers, P., García, R., (Editors) 2009, Proc 6th IEEE-RAS Latin American Robotics Symposium LARS 2009, IEEE Xplore. 4. Weitzenfeld, A., Barrera, A., (Editors) 2004, Proc 1st IEEE-RAS Latin American Robotics Symposium LARS 2004 (ISBN 970-943-770-4). Special Issue Editions 1. Ruiz del Solar, J., Weitzenfeld, A., (Guest Editors) 2015, Special Issue on "Advanced Robotics", Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Vol. 77 No. 1, January. 2. Ruiz del Solar, J., Weitzenfeld, A., (Guest Editors) 2012, Special Issue on "Advances in Robotics in Latin America", Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (DOI: 10.1007/s10846-011-9629-6). Refereed Publications (Robotics, Neural Networks, AI) 1. Llofriu, M., Tejera, G., Contreras, M., Pelc, T., Fellous, J.M., and Weitzenfeld, A., 2015, Multi-Scale Space Representation and Learning in Goal-Oriented Robot Navigation, Journal of Neural Network, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2015.09.006. 2. Contreras, M., Pelc, T., Llofriu, M.,
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